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Re: [PATCH] powerpc/security: Use a mutex for interrupt exit code patching

From: Michael Ellerman <hidden>
Date: 2021-11-02 11:51:18

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:24:10 +1000, Russell Currey wrote:
The mitigation-patching.sh script in the powerpc selftests toggles
all mitigations on and off simultaneously, revealing that rfi_flush
and stf_barrier cannot safely operate at the same time due to races
in updating the static key.

On some systems, the static key code throws a warning and the kernel
remains functional.  On others, the kernel will hang or crash.

[...]
Applied to powerpc/next.

[1/1] powerpc/security: Use a mutex for interrupt exit code patching
      https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/3c12b4df8d5e026345a19886ae375b3ebc33c0b6

cheers
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